Sarri: “Football is now just business, it risks ending in 10 years”

The Champions League, tomorrow’s match in Monza and also the future of football. With the European objective ever more real, Maurizio Sarri broadens his horizons and launches the alert on the state of health of the movement: “What do I think of the break for the national teams? I only saw Kosovo-Andorra for 10 minutes, just because when I turned the channel I saw 22 players all in the box. The schedule is insane, and I’ve heard the insanity of boosting matches. There are 5-6 absentees due to injury for every national team match. If football is treated only as a business, in ten years there will be nothing left: there are more interesting shows on TV”.

Verzo Monza

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For training, Sarri explained the situation of Immobile. “From a clinical point of view he’s fine, then there’s the physical aspect, he can’t be at his best. Let’s see if we use it for a piece”. While for Milinkovic-Savic he asks for patience: “It is not a moment in which he is expressing himself to the fullest. If it returns to 100%, it can make a difference in the final part. We look forward to it with great confidence.” Many congratulations for Per Luis Alberto “Right now he is a phenomenal player, I don’t know the public, what the journalists watch in the match. For what the coach sees what he is doing makes me happy. Total player, he pulls you from outside, chases, does everything. Player above the lines”.

Champions and market

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Sarri also spoke of the Champions League objective: “The responsibility lies with those who have a better team than ours, we have an opportunity. I have always said that there are teams with a higher staff than ours overall. The others make changes that leave you thinking; Atalanta 20 minutes from the end, against Empoli, put Boga, Lookman and Hojlund. We don’t have this possibility, but let’s go fight it and see how it ends”. And of the market that could move with qualification to the Champions League, he adds: “I don’t care if a team is less in the Champions League, if someone is looking for me and the project intrigues me, I’ll go anyway. And if there are players who stop at the first appearance, it could be that the Champions League increases in terms of appeal. I prefer Italian players because they give more identity, if we had 7 or 8 from Lazio it would be even better”.